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48 processes running, 75% of my memory just being use and I'm only on the home page

thess100 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:48:23 GMT

Something in your systems is using everything it can. 90% of the time, if I kill Firefox and try to start it again, it starts to load 6 to 12 processes and just sits in neverland! If I wait 20 minutes or so, the yahoo home page finally shows up!

Re: 48 processes running, 75% of my memory just being use and I'm only on the home page

siffemcon — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:27:04 GMT

Multiple processes is normal.

Open a new tab and via the address bar, go to about:memory

- click Verbose, then click Measure and save

- attach the memory report to a new [bug](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided).

- also paste your about:support info to your bug

Re: 48 processes running, 75% of my memory just being use and I'm only on the home page

hmijail — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:12:45 GMT

I'm seeing 120 Firefox processes. It's using so much memory that paging causes kernel process to use about 200% CPU all the time. Of course, this is a battery killer.

I would do the about:memory measuring thing, but I am in 139.0b5 and the current version is 139, so would it be useful?
The memory buildup / hemorrhaging only happens after some time (some days), so it's not practical to hope to have it in the latest available version. So what to do?

Re: 48 processes running, 75% of my memory just being use and I'm only on the home page

hmijail — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:09:40 GMT

Additionally, when I click Measure in about:memory, an error message appears on top, in red:

WARNING: the following values are negative or unreasonably large.

ac2d-texture-memory

This indicates a defect in one or more memory reporters. The invalid values are highlighted.